How much did HICKOK FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of HICKOK FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

hope

2020

—

2021

—

2022

—

2023

rescue

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$512

Median grant

States reached

$669k

Total assets

Largest grants

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$3,500
HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK$3,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$3,000
STARLIGHT THEATER$3,000
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM$1,750
THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM$1,500
THE JEWEL BALL$1,500
CANINE ASSISTANTS$1,287
KEMPER MUSEUM$1,000
BRADEN'S HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER$1,000
TCU$1,000
JUVENILE DIABETES$600
BOTAR ORGANIZATION$512
FEEDING AMERICA$500
UNIVERSITY ACADEMY$500

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$178k · 36 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$178k

$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+73%

Still filing today

39%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionAnimalsHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

HT
HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK
5× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +37%
KC
KANSAS CITY CARE CLINIC
7× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +195%
CM
CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL
6× · 2018–2023 · $6k · revenue +23%

Funded once

CP
CHILD PROTECTION CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +89%
SK
SHELTER KCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +73%
CC
CHROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Cascadia Health

Cascadia health delivers whole health care - integrated mental health and addiction services, primary care, and housing - to support our communities and provide hope and well-being for those we serve.

Health

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc

United way of greater kansas city's mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of greater kansas city.

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Abilitypath Housing

To advance advocacy, inclusion, and independence for people with developmental disabilities

Human Services

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health

United Children's Services of

Children's services

Human Services

Kc Common Good Inc

Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.

Employment

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition

Kansas City Pet Project

Provides shelter for animals until placed in suitable homes for adoption or reclaimed by their owner.

Animals

Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc

The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of kansas city is to reduce the burden of childhood illness on children and their families.

Health

The Food Bank for Central

Hunger relief network sharing millions of pounds of nutritious food with thousands of missourians.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Care Clinic and the most unlike its peers is Multiple Sclerosis Association of. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 28% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/27

the rest of the field

10%

3,904/39,464

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/25

Grantees still filing

20/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$144,657Arts & Culture$25,150Food & Nutrition$10,500Education$9,250Health$7,945Philanthropy$5,525Housing & Shelter$4,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO23.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Atterbury Family Foundation · John and Bernice Hamra Foundation · Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 10018904 · The Torosian Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Victor E Speas Foundation · The Sosland Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family · The Shumaker Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation HICKOK FAMILY FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE JEWEL BALL.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 7.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 931905190 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE JEWEL BALL, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Hickok Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hickok Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HICKOK FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Hickok Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

HICKOK FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Hickok Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph